novelraw Chapter 61
Chapter 61
Chapter 61
In the evening, Aunt Xue stayed with Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu for dinner.During the banquet, Jia Baoyu drank several glasses of wine, and his tongue trembled with joy.
"Sister Bao, in a few days, let's play in the garden together. When your yard is repaired, we will go to play in your garden too..." Jia Baoyu said excitedly with a red face.
Zhou Lang didn't answer Baoyu's words, but smiled at Lin Daiyu: "My sister is a clever person with a delicate mind. If I have time, my sister will give me a good idea."
Before Lin Daiyu could speak, Jia Baoyu took up the conversation: "Sister Bao, if you want to give advice, I have a lot of ideas. I will also give advice to my sister!"
Lin Daiyu looked at Jia Baoyu's courteous look, and felt a little sour in her heart, she just pursed her lips and smiled without speaking.
Zhou Lang was very annoyed. He deliberately looked at Baoyu and smiled, "I dare not waste your time. Uncle is watching your homework. You should spend more time writing and studying."
Jia Baoyu hated people urging him to study, and when he mentioned Jia Zheng, he was afraid, so the smile disappeared from his face, and he drank two sips of wine sullenly.
Seeing that Baoyu was unhappy, Lin Daiyu's sour heart got better, but she couldn't see that he was unhappy, so she said softly, "Come to see Sister Bao today, don't be unhappy."
Seeing that the atmosphere was not good, Aunt Xue joked, "That's right, Baoyu eats vegetables!" Then she gave Baoyu the vegetables and asked the girl to fill up the wine.
This gag finally made Baoyu happy again, and she forgot about the idea of repairing the garden.
For Jia Baoyu, Jia Zheng was simply a curse that gave him a headache when he mentioned it.
The next day, the address had already been selected. It was on the north side of Rongguo Mansion, two streets away, and in an alley where many civil servants lived around.
It was originally the house of a fallen royal family. The royal family was cheated into gambling a few months ago and owed a huge debt. They sold the house a few days ago to pay off the debt.
It was also a coincidence that when Zhou Lang chose the house, either he thought it was not big enough or the surroundings were too noisy.This house is big and quiet, and it is close to Rongguo Mansion, so it is a good place to send it up.
Even though it cost 1000 taels of silver to buy and had to be completely refurbished and rebuilt, Zhou Lang still felt it was worth it.
On that ground, almost all the people who live there are officials.If it wasn't for the fact that Xue's family was an imperial merchant, and their ancestors were Ziwei family members, they probably wouldn't be able to buy this house!
Zhou Lang didn't forget to ask Lin Daiyu to be a staff officer, he picked one Jia Baoyu to go to school when Jia Zheng escorted him to school.
It happened that Sanchun came to play with Lin Daiyu, and several of them nestled in the small hall, drinking authentic tea and talking about poetry, seeing Zhou Lang come with blueprints, everyone was happy, they got together to look at the blueprints, and chirped with ideas.
The house is half a residence and half a garden.
Zhou Lang wanted to move there, so he didn't move the house, and only planned on the original garden.
"Plant some flowers and trees, it will be cool to play in summer!" Xichun said.
"There must be a gazebo, it should be more spacious, so that there are many people to squeeze in to play!" Yingchun said softly.
"There are two arches at the front and back of the garden, so it is convenient to enter and play from anywhere." Tanchun had a plan in mind.
"There are mountains and water in the garden to have a view!" Lin Daiyu came from the south, so she naturally prefers exquisiteness.
It is a bit difficult for this house to dig a small river for boating, but it is no problem to dig a small pond, plant lotus, and raise a few fish.
Zhou Lang considered the opinions of several people, and recalled the modern design, so he planned a small canal that meanders from the front to the pond at the back, and built a large terrace facing the pond, with ventilation on all sides, and a corridor that winds to the two arches at the front and back. .
Set aside a few places and plant flowers and trees in four seasons, so that there are some scenery in four seasons, and there is no need to appreciate them.
Both Sanchun and Lin Daiyu had ingenious ideas, coupled with Zhou Lang's own opinion, this garden has already attracted a few people's eagerness to play before it was built.
Looking at the excited faces of several people, Zhou Lang just smiled in his heart, thinking, her house is just ordinary, and when it is built, it will only be superior in exquisiteness.
They still don't know that the Rongguo Mansion will build a Grand View Garden in the future, and when the Grand View Garden is completed and lived in, it will be amazing!
However, Zhou Lang made up his mind not to live in the Grand View Garden.When the Grand View Garden was built, it was almost time for the Xue family to move out of Rongguo Mansion.
After talking about the drawings, it was already night.Zhou Lang, Sanchun and Lin Daiyu went to have dinner with Jia's mother.
At the banquet, after eating, the maids brought tea for everyone to drink as usual.
Zhou Lang didn't take the teacup, and asked Jia Mu with a smile, "Old Ancestor, I once heard a doctor say that after eating, you need to take a break before drinking tea, otherwise it will hurt your stomach. Although you are in good health, Like my mother, drinking tea like this every day hurts your appetite!"
Jia Mu brought tea and was about to drink it, when she heard Zhou Lang's words, she suddenly froze, stared at Zhou Lang, and asked quickly, "Drinking tea after dinner hurts the stomach?" Before Zhou Lang could answer, she Some frowns, thoughtful: "This is the rule of our family, no one has said it?"
Nobody said it?
Zhou Lang twitched his lips, but still smiled and said, "Why don't you ask the doctor about it? I used to like to drink tea after dinner, but once the doctor saw it, and the doctor specifically mentioned it to me, so I said Take it to heart."
Mother Jia was dubious, she didn't drink the tea as usual, she sighed, her complexion was not good, and she put it back on the tray.
Seeing that Mother Jia didn't drink tea, and Sanchun didn't like tea, they put the teacups back one after another.As for Lin Daiyu, she had already quietly put the teacup back.
Her father also said this before, when she first came to Rongguo Mansion, she also wanted to say that she couldn't drink tea right away, it hurt her stomach.It's just that she was young at that time, and she felt that her grandmother's family was honorable, and everything she did was right.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, a sister Bao came and talked about this.
The scene was a bit cold, Zhou Lang didn't care much, and just picked out a few anecdotes that he had heard on the way to Beijing to tell everyone, which made Jia's mother smile again.
In fact, Mother Jia is getting older, and she pays more attention to her health.Zhou Lang expressed his kindness, and what he said was pleasant, and Jia's mother didn't feel uncomfortable when she heard it.
However, she still had a small lump in her heart.The habit of drinking tea after meals for many years has actually hurt the stomach, and now it is pointed out by a young junior, which is a bit embarrassing.
Although Jia's mother was smiling, she looked at Zhou Lang's round face, but she was already slandering in her heart: The girl from the Xue family is said to be very smart, she is a person with all aspects, why can't she be considerate of everything when she speaks today!Could it be intentional?
But then I thought: No matter how smart a person is, he is only a teenager, how can he be like an elder, and have everything!
He sneered again in his heart: Everyone praised her for being comprehensive, which seemed a bit exaggerated.
Mother Jia's eyes drifted to Sanchun and Lin Daiyu, and saw that they were all bright-eyed, lively in speech, elegant and dignified in posture, all of them looked like aristocratic ladies, she nodded secretly in her heart: It is worthy of being brought up by the family since childhood, and they are much better than girls from other families. .
As for who the girl from the other family is, Mother Jia would not even tell her if she was beaten to death.
Zhou Lang actually felt Jia Mu's strange gaze.But she is not a girl from the Jia family, nor is she the granddaughter of Jia's mother, and she has no plans to have anything to do with the Jia family in the future.
What does it matter how Jia's mother thinks of her!
Day after day, the days spent in the Rongguo Mansion without leaving home, time flies by.
Zhou Lang followed Sanchun and Lin Daiyu to go to school with the female teacher, learned a lot of poetry and songs, played the piano and flute, and became closer.
Jia Baoyu still hangs out with the group of sisters, staying with Lin Daiyu whenever he has free time, and coming to joke with Zhou Lang from time to time.
Zhou Lang naturally avoided Jia Baoyu, always making excuses, or going to Sanchun to play in advance, so that Jia Baoyu would miss out.
She would rather take Lin Daiyu to avoid Jia Baoyu together, but both Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu live in the wing room of Jia's mother's courtyard, and they meet every morning and evening, and their relationship is not so good.
Even if they were separated by a few minutes, Lin Daiyu's intimacy with Jia Baoyu would not be less.
Zhou Lang felt that he didn't need to make such a fuss, he just waited to move out in the future, picked up Lin Daiyu to play outside more, and let her know that there were other good men out there.
Jia Baoyu can be regarded as dog-skin plaster. Zhou Lang avoided him, but he didn't notice it at all, and still happily played with her.Other occasions can be "coincidentally" avoided, but when Lin Daiyu is playing together in Ruo Sanchun, Zhou Lang can no longer avoid it in other people's residences.
You can't say that you are not feeling well, then Jia Baoyu will go straight to her boudoir to greet her.Aunt Xue won't stop her!
Therefore, Zhou Lang could only put a smile on his face and treat Jia Baoyu like a girl.
When a few people get together, chatting is boring, so they talk about paintings and write some crooked poems.
When it comes to the talent of poetry, Zhou Lang is ashamed to be inferior to Lin Daiyu and others.
Originally, Xue Baochai's talent was equal to that of Lin Daiyu's, and his poetry writing also had his own merits.It's just that although Zhou Lang has Xue Baochai's memory and remembers the poems and books, he doesn't have Xue Baochai's aura to write poems.
Whenever a few people write poems, Zhou Lang thinks hard and spends a lot of effort, but he can only write a good poem.This is comparable to Sanchun's works, but not as good as Lin Daiyu's.
As a result, Lin Daiyu's talent became more and more admirable, and when they read poems and paintings, they also faintly focused on Lin Daiyu's opinions.
Fortunately, Zhou Lang didn't care about these things, he just played with them for some fun, and didn't care about being high or low at all.What she cares more about is the house she planned.
From the planning of the layout in autumn to the winter, when it snows occasionally, the work will be stopped for a few days, and the work will start again when the weather is fine.During the New Year's Eve, when everyone was on holiday, Xue's house naturally stopped working for a few days.
After repairing and repairing like this, when the spring begins, there is finally a shadow.